The Bridge Uncollected Version, from Periodicals and Anthologies, 1927–1930 by Hart Crane, ed. Ben Mazer

This edition of Hart Crane’s long poem The Bridge, first published as a book in 1930, collects, for the first time ever, the variant, earlier versions of the poem’s sections as they were first published in periodicals and anthologies during the years 1927–1930. The many differences between these earlier versions and the versions which appeared in the Horace Liveright edition of 1930 make this book an indispensable volume for anyone with a deep interest in Hart Crane, or indeed in American poetry, and a tremendous tool for the understanding of Crane and his poetry. “Crane was one of those men whom every age seems to select as the spokesmen of its spiritual life; they give the age away.”   —Allen Tate “I think Crane is the great poet of that generation. He got out more than anybody else. Not only is it the tremendous power there, but he somehow got New York City; he was at the center of things in the way that no other poet was.”   —Robert Lowell “So far as I am concerned, I would gladly